Indigenous women in Brazil have traditionally been excluded from taking on leadership roles that were often filled by tribal patriarchs. But those roles shifted in recent years as threats against ...

Until recently, the Juma seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes. In the late 1990s, the last remaining family consisted of an elderly man and his three daughters. But under ...

Members of an uncontacted indigenous tribe were recently seen on a riverbank in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest amid the increasing presence of loggers. A rare video shared by the ...

One of Brazil’s largest diamond deposits exists in the territory of the Cinta Larga — an indigenous tribe in the country’s ...

In an unusual development, members of an Amazon tribe who avoid contact with outsiders have been seen entering a village Indigenous advocates find that alarming and a sign of stress as a logging ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — In a rare encounter, ...

Juma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, BrazilJuma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local ...

JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign that ...